I am admittedly interpreting someone else's words, so please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't believe DigitalChaos is disagreeing that gun control has an effect on homicide rates -- he actually said gun control is good in
this post.
It seems he is trying to point out that the "10,000 deaths" graphic that was posted is misleading. For two reasons:
-- It overstates the differences among the countries listed. He doesn't seem to be arguing that there
isn't a striking statistical difference. Just that by using total deaths (and including suicides) instead of comparing homicide rates, it looks far more disparate. (That's why he posted those
two bar graphs... to show the difference is not so striking, not to prove there
isn't a difference or that gun control doesn't have an effect.)
-- That the countries in the graphic were chosen specifically because their gun deaths are so low, which also serves to make the differences seem so striking.
I can see both sides of the second point. I'm not really posting this because I feel like I have a stake in this debate. I just felt like DigitalChaos' points might be getting lost somehow. FWIW